Slow-Braised Berkshire Pig Jowl, Maltose Crackling, Prunes, Soubise Cream Perfumed with Prune Kernel Oil

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Complex

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By Peter Gilmore

Published 2010

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The Berkshire pig has an amazing amount of intermuscular fat, which makes it incredibly tender and flavoursome. I use the jowl, which is a cut taken from the jaw of the pig. The jowl is surrounded by a good layer of pure white fat, which has a very fine flavour, and cooking the jowl very slowly makes for an incredibly tender piece of meat. To make a crackling from the pig skin would mean leaving an inch of fat on the meat, so I have made a crackling from maltose instead. The maltose is a gr